Opening of Gettysburg Campaign

Opening of Gettysburg Campaign is a Virginia historical marker in Culpeper County, dedicated 2024.

Rte. 762, just east of interchange with US 15

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Confederate Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and most of his cavalry division arrived in Culpeper two weeks after the Chancellorsville Campaign ended in May 1863. On 22 May and again on 5 June, Stuart staged grand reviews of his division on this field, drawing many civilian spectators. Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived from Fredericksburg on 7 June and the next day conducted his own review of Stuart’s division, encompassing 10,000 men extending nearly two miles to the northeast. On 9 June, Union cavalry under Brig. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton attacked Stuart at Brandy Station and fought to a draw. Confederate infantry then moved toward the Shenandoah Valley and Pennsylvania while Stuart screened the army’s march.

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Historical maps covering this location

1859 · Virginia (Herman Boye, 1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Central Virginia showing Lieut. Gen'l. U.S. Grant's Campaign and marches of the armies… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1865 · Central Virginia showing Lieut Gen'l U.S. Grant's Campaign and Marches. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1889 · Virginia and West Virginia (eastern portion). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1892 · Spotsylvania, Virginia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Central Virginia showing Lieut Gen'l U.S. Grant's Campaign and Marches, 1865, covering the location of Opening of Gettysburg Campaign, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Central Virginia showing Lieut Gen'l U.S. Grant's Campaign and Marches, 1865, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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